Typical price: £260
What is it: Handheld organiser featuring Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone Edition
What we think: Its sliding keyboard makes it very easy to create and edit documents on the move, but it lacks the immediacy and sound quality of some mobile phones
Average user rating
8.1
excellent
Average user rating from 15 users
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O2 XDA Mini S user reviews
October 10, 2006
Posted by: Anonymous
"Large handset that sacrifices (initial) phone ease of use for desktop power on the move."
What I like:
Keyboard, Windows/Outlook sync, Wi-Fi, Media player, voice-activated dialling, miniSD for media and files, GPRS for mobile based surfing.
What I don't like:
Slowish CPU and/or short on internal memory. Slow O2 software.
Review:
Windows mobile is powerful and extensible, but out of the box for a phone or even PDA-based user it can be a bit difficult to use. Microsoft have got to work harder to get up with competition such as other PDA/phone built-in applications. That said, the sync with Outlook and Exchange is excellent and the exec fits in to that laptop on the move idea with out all the luggage! By the way, using the voice-activated dialling removes most of the 'it's not a phone handset' type niggles, as does using the hot keys.
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